In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a man destroys his life through gambling debts and stealing company funds.

Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne Fromsett, it's not to talk about his story ideas — she wants him to locate the missing wife of her boss, Mr. Kingsby. The assignment quickly becomes complicated when bodies start turning up.

A French Resistance fighter discovers he's a dead ringer for a Nazi official.

Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get him safely out of the country.

An FBI agent goes undercover to investigate the sabotage of American cargo ships.

Hollywood starlet foils an Axis plot to sabotage the L.A. infrastructure.

An innocent man is bamboozled into trading places with a dangerous escaped convict.